There are times in this history of our Republic when the decisions of our presidents truly do carry the weight of the world. In more civil times, the politicians and naysayers of both parties could be counted on to put party differences aside and support the president in moments like these.
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The pictures of President Kennedy on the phone during the Cuban Missile Crisis invoke those feelings of support. The man is trying to avert nuclear war, and it wasn’t the time to try and score cheap political shots. You back up your president.
The images of President Bush sitting in the schoolroom moments after he was informed by Andrew Card that a second plane had hit the towers mark another of those
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